The Comfort of Strangers
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Paul Schrader
Christopher Walken
Daniel Franco
Manfredi Aliquo
David Ford
Rupert Everett
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
While on holiday in Venice, an English couple on the verge of separating find themselves inexplicably drawn to a mysterious local and his long-suffering wife.
Director
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Paul Schrader
Cast
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Christopher Walken
Daniel Franco
Manfredi Aliquo
David Ford
Rupert Everett
Mario Cotone
Rossana Caghiari
Natasha Richardson
Antonio Serrano
Fabrizio Castellani
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Helen Mirren
Giancarlo Previati
Crew
Alessandro Alberti
Alfio Ambrogi
Bruno Anghelone
Luciano Anzellotti
Massimo Anzellotti
Nicola Arigliano
Giorgio Armani
Angelo Badalamenti
Giancarlo Barberi
Deborah Imogen Beer
Alvaro Belsole
I A Belsole
James Beshears
Lucianno Biasiato
Luciano Bispuri
Sue Blainey
Kristina Boden
Sandro Bolli
Stefano Bolzoni
Mariolina Bono
Laura Borzelli
Kristine Bulakowski
Francesco Cagnone
Pietro Carta
Maria Giovanna Caselli
Fabrizio Castellani
Alberto Chiovenda
Giovanni Corridori
Walter Cossu
Mario Cotone
Renato Cravin
Betty Curtis
Adriano Dilorenzo
Adriano Dilorenzo
Galliano Donati
Thomas Drescher
Franco Fantini
Alfonso Farano
Stefano Fava
Ivano Ferrario
Nika Ford
Augusto Forti
Paolo Franceschi
Joan Franklin
Luciano Gallina
Andrea Giaccio
Leslie Gimbel
Giorgio Giuman
Mark Goodermote
Alberto Grassi
Rachel Griffiths
Marco Guidone
Bruce Kitzmeyer
Drew Kunin
Giacomo Lesina
Favio Maiuri
Luigi Marchione
Natale Massara
Ian Mcewan
Jane Mculley
Giuseppe Meloni
Aldo Mingardi
Mauro Misino
Gianpaola Mora
Jim Nau
Naldo Nibbi
Paolo Nigrelli
Alberico Novelli
Andrea Nuzzolo
Fabio Olmi
Sandra Orlando
Giorgio Padoan
Ivo Palazzi
Vito Pallavicini
Stefano Paltrinieri
Bill Pankow
Nicola Pecorini
Lucia Pederneschi
Marcello Perricone
Paola Petricca
Harold Pinter
Angelo Pititto
Franco Pizzonia
Eugenio Ponga
Gianni Quaranta
Donald K Ranvaud
Linda Reisman
Teddy Reno
Angelo Rizzoli
Alessandro Rossi
Sergio Rossi
Vito Rossiello
Alessandro Sacchetti
Marco Sacerdoti
Paola Saraval
Piero Sassaroli
Maurice Schell
Stefano Sechi
Mary Selway
Alessandro Senaldi
Susan Sklar Friedman
Daniele Sordoni
Dante Spinotti
Antonio Tedesco
Claudio Tedesco
John Thompson
Doriano Torriero
Franco Torriero
Francesco Zaccaria
Mel Zelniker
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States March 15, 1991
Released in United States Spring March 29, 1991
Released in United States April 12, 1991
Released in United States on Video August 22, 1991
Released in United States 1990
Began shooting September 25, 1989.
Completed shooting December 1, 1989.
Released in United States March 15, 1991 (San Francisco)
Released in United States Spring March 29, 1991
Released in United States April 12, 1991 (Chicago and Washington, DC)
Released in United States on Video August 22, 1991
Released in United States 1990 (Shown at Telluride Film Festival August 31-September 3, 1990.)